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How to create a powder keg society.

Turn it up a notch. Show super-models popping open £500 bottles of French champaign in the cabin of a £30Mil private Jet. Put it to music, play it 20 times a day and churn out a gratuitous new clip every week. 

Stir this into poor societies until they truly believe the Ultra-High Net-Worth lifestyle is attainable and quite normal. 

Step 2. Remove all entry-level jobs. 

Replace music stores with iTunes. Replace the book stares with Amazon. Replace the Grocery Checkout with a Self-Check System. Allow people to but tickets to the movies from a touch-screen. Send call center jobs to Manila. Don't leave a single entry level job in sight, don't let people get a foot on the ladder. 

Then flood the market with low skilled overseas labour. Make it risky and expensive for businesses to hire people. Raise the retirement age and get older workers to compete for jobs they used to do at the beginning of their working days.

Step 3. Educate people for a job market that doesn't exist anymore

Make sure student's learn skills relevant to the industrial revolution workplace. Reward them for reading text books and remembering facts, punish them for finding the answers by Googling it on their Blackberry. 

Reward them for good consistent results across all subjects. Punish them for being outstanding in one area. 

Make them feel smart when they are the smartest in the class. Make them feel stupid for getting the smartest kid in the class to tell you the answer. 

Ensure they expect to be given a job and a career just because they get good grades. Don't tell them that the world most successful people create there own jobs. 

Step 4. Normalise violence

Make violent movies, violent games and violent sports. Market them with budgets that exceed the GDP of some countries. 

Show news 24hours and show scenes of aggression and war all day and night. Hand out free papers with reports of misery, victimisation, hatred and abuse. 

Make it "un-newsworthy" when someone does something great. Don't show examples of people who help each other, people running good small businesses, people who build society up. 

Step 5. Turn the establishment into an enemy

Tear shreds off political figures until no-one in their right mind would want to get involved in the political process. Mock every initiative the Government tries to launch as "not enough", "not perfect" and "too late". Beat up politicians who dare to tell the truth or to think up a long term plan.

Make "the rich" into the enemy. Don't tell people that without many of "the rich" most of "the jobs" wouldn't exist. Don't tell people that "the rich" have all sorts of challenges to deal with day-to-day and don't just sit around on their yachts. Don't give any credit to "the rich" for paying over half the taxes and generating most of the exports.

With these five ingredients you can bake up the perfect explosive mix of youths who are ready to riot at a moments notice. Simply equip them with cloud-based messaging systems and high tech mobile hardware and you are ready to rumble.

Please note: I am not making excuses for the criminal behavior displayed this week. I am trying to share why I think it was so easy to spark off these youths in less than a few days. I'm sure that, unless this systemic combination is addresses it will result in more unrest.

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